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Three air traffic controllers will be blamed for a near collision of two jetliners over the Atlantic Ocean last week, according to a published report. Richard Haskins, assistant manager of air traffic at the Miami Air Route Traffic Control center, said one of the controllers erred about one of the plane`s altitude and two who failed to notice the mistake. But Roger Myers, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration in Atlanta, said the investigation of the incident is not yet complete and no blame has been placed.

If she can't bring residents to Crime Watch meetings, Norma Haskins said, then she'll bring the meetings to them. "Every month I hold a Crime Watch meeting to get info out, but no one is there," said Haskins, who is president of the Hallandale Beach Crime Watch. "So we're going to put info on the cable TV. We are going to call the show, Hallandale Beach Alert." Starting Monday, the half-hour show will air twice a week on the city's public access channel. City residents can view Hallandale Beach Alert at 8:30 p.m. Mondays and at 10:30 a.m. Wednesdays on Channel 3. "ABC here we come," said Haskins about her television debut.

A hitchhiker from upstate New York, who had been thumbing his way back from visiting a friend in Texas, testified Friday in the first-degree murder trial of Kenneth Chance about a ride he could never forget. Richard Machovoe told jurors that Chance, 27, of Bel Air, Md., whom he knew as Allen, told him almost right off that "he killed a guy in Florida and stole his van." Chance`s co-defendant Edward E. Watkins, 22, of Lake Worth also testified Friday that he saw Chance kill Michael Haskins, a 21-year-old Hollywood man, by shooting him four times on Sept.

A Fort Lauderdale police dispatcher now faces criminal charges after she was accused of illegally selling prescription diet pills to co-workers last year. Robin Haskins, a clerk in the Fort Lauderdale Police Department's communications division since 1973, surrendered to the Broward Sheriff's Office on Monday. She was charged with possession of mazindol, an appetite-suppressant that can be sold legally in the United States by prescription only. Haskins has been fired by the department, effective Feb. 13, police spokesman Clint Ward said.

HALLANDALE BEACH All registered voters are invited to an election rally at 4 p.m. Saturday at the home of Mike and Norma Haskins of the Hallandale Beach Civic Association. Members of the Broward County Supervisor of Elections Office and City Commission candidates will be on hand to answer questions. The rally will be at 814 SW Sixth Ave. For more information, call 954-458-8614.

A Delray Beach man was charged with burglary after detectives found his fingerprints inside a home in Delray Shores, according to Palm Beach County sheriff`s reports. John Russell Conley, 21, of Southwest Dorson Way, was booked into the County Jail after his arrest Tuesday. He was charged with burglarizing the home of Joseph Haskins on Fern Way on Jan. 5. A television set and cash taken during the burglary were not recovered.

A new civic association has surfaced with the incorporation of the Hallandale Beach Civic Association. Its organizers hope to reach out to the city's working class residents, who wish to voice their concerns to the city's elected leaders but can't attend commission meetings held during working hours. "There's no voice for the working class," said Mike Haskins, president of the association and a resident in the city's southwest area. "I absolutely think [the association] will fill a need.

Six leaders of the city's Crime Watch board, who have been champions of increased benefits for police, resigned this week, citing differences with police. The seventh board member is on vacation. "We stepped down because we were doing more arguing than getting along," said Norma Haskins, the group's president. "We would say there was a problem in an area, and [police] would say there wasn't." She said police ignored problems with speeding, absentee landlords, children throwing things at cars and residents playing loud music.

Six months after an Amtrak train collided with a gasoline tanker at Cypress Creek Road and killed six people, the Fort Lauderdale Police Department is questioning the findings of its own veteran investigator. Officer Paul Griffith, a traffic homicide investigator for at least 10 years, has determined the train engineer was in part at fault for not braking fast enough, according to an attorney representing the widow of the tanker driver. Griffith's supervisor, Sgt. Terry Haskins, said he has given the case to another investigator for a second opinion.

Residents concerned about crime in Hallandale Beach recently attended a Crime Watch neighborhood conference. Norma Haskins, president of the Hallandale Beach Crime Watch, said a representative from the Police Department discussed burglaries in the area. "Apparently the kids are staying home from school, knocking on doors and breaking in when no one answers," she said. "They have caught a couple of the suspects, but are still looking for some." Haskins said police will attend another Crime Watch meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Oreste Blake Johnson Park on Northwest Eighth Avenue.